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"London" by William Blake
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"Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth
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"London, 1802" by William Wordsworth
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"Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen
Austen never became famous for her writing during her lifetime and this novel was published posthumosly a few months after she passed away. -
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
The first edition was published anonymously in London. -
"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" by Frederick Douglass
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"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
The novel was initially published under the pen name "Currer Bell." -
"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
DIckinson's work was first published in a collection by an acquaintance posthumosly in 1890. -
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
As a play, it was first premiered in the St. James theatre in London. -
"In Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
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"Sea Rose" by H.D.
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"Preface to Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell
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"Ulysses" by James Joyce
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"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" by Virginia Woolf
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"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
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"On the Abolition of the English Department"
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"Toward an Aesthetic of Reception" by Hans Robert Jauss
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"Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction" by Ann Banfield
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"Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" by Judith Butler
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"Gifts" by Nuruddin Farah
"Gifts" was the most obscure and the information was harder to find. Unlike the other works is not widely recognized as a classic, yet. -
"Poetry in an Age of Revolution" by P.M.S. Dawson
It was pretty difficult to find the publishing date and they seemed to differentiate between an online and first publication date. -
"A Semiprivate Room" by Ellen Rooney
A litle unsure on this date, it was difficult to nail down for sure. -
"A Theory of Adaption" by Linda Hutcheon
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"Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel
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"Modernism" by Peter Childs
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Introduction to "Uses of Literature" by Rita Felski